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He is married to Eunice Jane - Emma Jane - Eunice - Eunette Beach.

They got married on December 1, 1895 at Davenport, Scott, Iowa, United States, he was 28 years old.Source 4


Child(ren):

  1. Marguerite Wilken  1896-1990

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  1. https://data.matricula-online.eu/de/deutschland/osnabrueck Johan Bernard (Broer) Berens https://fjmblom.home.xs4all.nl/ https://data.matricula-online.eu/de/deutschland/osnabrueck/wesuwe-haren-st-clemens/D1_105_2/?pg=86
    Pauline Berens: Genealogienetwerk zus Greetje Berens voorheen EemslandBoekweitBoerenImmigratie
    https://www.genealogieonline.nl/the-dutch-connection/I5993.php
    # nr naam-vader naam-moeder beroep-ouders woonplaats-ouders geslacht naam-kind geboortedatum doopdatum opmerkingen
    11 Wilken Anton Albrechten Elisabet Ackersleute Hebelermeer M Johann Albert 18670125 18670126

    *20-01-1868 according to death certificate
    16-01-2024: Not sure if Johann Albert *25-01-1867 Hebelermeer was the same as Albert Frank *20-01-1868 Hamburg: children weren't named after grandparents, Johann Alberts parents were Anton and Elisabeth, Albert Franks parents were called Fritz and Leiza.
    Johann Albert was a Catholic, Albert Frank was a Baptist
  2. Matricula Duitse kerkboeken onlineMatricula Duitse kerkboeken online Wesuwe St. Clemens
  3. death certificate | Suzanne Denton: timeline Albert Wilken
    Suzanne Denton: ALBERT FRANK WILKEN TIMELINE

    Year Day Month
    1868 20 January Albert Frank Wilken born to Fritz and Leiza Wilken in Hamburg, Germany.
    ? Another brother, of unknown age or name, is born to Leiza and Fritz Wilken.
    ? Birth mother, Leiza, dies.
    ? Father remarries.
    ? Albert and his brother are sent to an orphanage when Fritz's new wife takes a dislike to them
    ? Albert takes job as a baker aboard ships.
    1888? Albert "Jumps ship" in New York area, sometime in 1888 or before.
    1890 31 October Albert applies for Naturalization in Crystal Falls, Iron County, Michigan.
    1893 10 November Albert's naturalization approved in Chicago, Illinois. Albert lived at 980 N Halsted Street and his witness, Emil Roehl, lived at 624 Jane Street. Both addresses are in Chicago, Illinois.
    1894 City Directory Albert lives in Davenport, Iowa, baker, Home Cooking Company, residence Brady NE, corner 6th.
    1895 1 December Albert married Eunice Jane Beach, (born 3 Dec 1868 in Arkansas) with Reverend E H Lovett, Pastor of Davenport's Calgery Baptist Church, presiding. It is unknown if Albert attended this church with Eunice
    1896 City Directory Albert in Davenport, Iowa, Proprietor, Model Home Bakery, 1425 Harrison.
    1896 19 September Albert's daughter Marguerite born. Albert chose the name, Marguerite, who was a character from the from the opera, "Faust". Albert was a great opera fan, and attended operas as often as he could.
    1898 City Directory Albert in Davenport, Iowa, Proprietor, Three Cent Lunchroom, 225 Perry,residence North Avenue,
    corner Arlington.
    1898 11 November Albert's daughter, Alberta Dortha, born in Davenport, Iowa.
    1900 28 November Albert's daughter, Katherine Rose, born in Clinton, Missouri.
    1905 13 June Albert's son, Carl Victor, born in Childress, Texas. All Albert's daughters, and eventually, Carl, too, worked with Albert in his bakeries, rising at 6:00 am and working until school began.
    1907 City Directory Albert and family now live in Lawton, Oklahoma; Albert listed as baker at 407 C Avenue.
    1907 9 October Albert's son, Sanford Lawton, born in Lawton, Oklahoma.
    1908 10 December Albert's son, Sanford Lawton, dies; Eunice, Sanford Lawton and Alberta Dortha, all buried in Lawton.
    1909 City Directory Lawton, Oklahoma, Albert listed as grocer, residence 110A Avenue.
    1910 24 January Albert's last son, Robert Ernest Howard, born; Robert legally changed his name to Howard Robert.
    1910 22 US Census Census states Albert is bakery cook; residence is 906 5th Street, Lawton, OK.
    1911 City Directory Albert is now Manager, Palace Bakery, residence 415 1/2 D Avenue.
    1913 City Directory The family still lives in Lawton, but Albert is living and working as a baker in Dallas,Texas.
    1913 13 July Lawton, Oklahoma: daughter Alberta Dortha drowns in Cache Creek pool, 4 1/2 miles SE of Lawton.
    When Carl began floundering in the water Alberta saved him, but at the cost of her own life.
    1913 The Dallas Constitution reported that Albert was currently living and working as a baker in Dallas, TX.
    1914 June Albert's daughter, Marguerite, graduates high school in Lawton.
    1916 - 1920 City Directories Albert continues to work in Dallas while the rest of the family moves to Durant, Oklahoma.
    Marguerite and Katherine acquire teaching certificates at the pre-state teachers college in Durant.
    1920 U S Census The family is now living in Durant, Ward 2, Oklahoma, 904 N Second, mortgaged home. Albert is self-employed, still working as a baker in Dallas, presumably.
    1920 US Census Lawton, Oklahoma. Marguerite is living at a local boarding house and teaching grade school.
    1921 Fall Marguerite takes a job in Nogales, Arizona, teaching at the Elm Street School. Soon after, Katherine finds a teaching job also in a Nogales school. Eunice, Carl and Howard soon follow. (Eunice's Obit)
    The casual relationship between Albert and his family became a permanent estrangement in Nogales.
    1923? Marguerite and Katherine visited Albert in Dallas, and he invited them to them to move in and keep house for him. I believe that was the last time anyone in the family connected with him.
    1924 22 January Marguerite marries Captain Jesse William Penn in Tucson, Arizona.
    1927 22 June Katherine Rose marries Gustave R Michaels (1898-1984) in Nogales.
    1927 Albert's youngest child, Howard, graduates high school.
    1930 U S Census Eunice is proprietor of a boarding house in Nogales; son Howard is a boarder working for a store.
    1932 5 March Howard is in San Antonio, TX, waiting for a new job to begin. He sends a telegram to his mother.
    It appears that Howard started working in San Antonio because Albert soon attempted to see Howard, suggesting they get together after Howard finished work one evening. Howard replied that he was busy that evening. He regretted not meeting his father that night for the rest of his life.
    1935 1940 Census Albert lived in San Antonio from 1935 on, though he probably lived there at least by the early 1930s.
    1930s The family believed that Albert was killed in a Texas automobile accident in the late 1930s.
    1940 City Directory Albert now (and probably well before this date) spells his surname as Wilkins.
    1940 U S Census The Census reveals Albert's residential address is 219 Burnet Street and he works in the wholesale bakery industry. Albert rents his home in San Antonio, TX.
    1949 25 March Eunice J Beach Wilken dies of cancer in San Leandro, California.
    1949 15 June Albert dies of a coronary occlusion, alone, impoverished, in a shack he rented 3 months previously.
    1949 19 June The June 19th edition of the San Antonio Light reports a body found in the shack.
    1949 21 June The June 21 edition of the San Antonio Light features a page 1 article titled, Dead Man's Identity Told.
    1949 24 June Albert was buried in an unmarked grave at Mission Cemetery, San Antonio, TX. No relatives found.
  4. Iowa USA marriage records 1880-1947 for Albert F Wilken

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Birthday January 25, 1867

  • The temperature on January 25, 1867 was about 2.8 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 94%. Source: KNMI
  • Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • From June 1, 1866 till June 4, 1868 the Netherlands had a cabinet Van Zuijlen van Nijevelt - Heemskerk with the prime ministers Mr. J.P.J.A. graaf Van Zuijlen van Nijevelt (AR) and Mr. J. Heemskerk Azn. (conservatief).
  • In the year 1867: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 3.6 million citizens.
    • January 15 » Forty people die when ice covering the boating lake at Regent's Park, London, collapses.
    • March 30 » Alaska is purchased from Russia for $7.2 million, about 2-cent/acre ($4.19/km²), by United States Secretary of State William H. Seward.
    • May 15 » Canadian Bank of Commerce opens for business in Toronto, Ontario. The bank would later merge with Imperial Bank of Canada to become what is CIBC in 1961.
    • June 19 » Maximilian I of the Second Mexican Empire is executed by a firing squad in Querétaro, Querétaro.
    • September 28 » Toronto becomes the capital of Ontario, having also been the capital of Ontario's predecessors since 1796.
    • November 9 » Tokugawa shogunate hands power back to the Emperor of Japan, starting the Meiji Restoration.

Christening day January 26, 1867

  • The temperature on January 26, 1867 was about 2.2 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the west-northwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 91%. Source: KNMI
  • Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • From June 1, 1866 till June 4, 1868 the Netherlands had a cabinet Van Zuijlen van Nijevelt - Heemskerk with the prime ministers Mr. J.P.J.A. graaf Van Zuijlen van Nijevelt (AR) and Mr. J. Heemskerk Azn. (conservatief).
  • In the year 1867: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 3.6 million citizens.
    • February 13 » Work begins on the covering of the Senne, burying Brussels's primary river and creating the modern central boulevards.
    • February 28 » Seventy years of Holy See–United States relations are ended by a Congressional ban on federal funding of diplomatic envoys to the Vatican and are not restored until January 10, 1984.
    • March 29 » Queen Victoria gives Royal Assent to the British North America Act which establishes Canada on July 1.
    • May 3 » The Hudson's Bay Company gives up all claims to Vancouver Island.
    • June 8 » Coronation of Franz Joseph as King of Hungary following the Austro-Hungarian compromise (Ausgleich).
    • December 13 » A Fenian bomb explodes in Clerkenwell, London, killing six.

Day of marriage December 1, 1895

  • The temperature on December 1, 1895 was about 7.9 °C. There was 3 mm of rain. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 98%. Source: KNMI
  • Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • Regentes Emma (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1898 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • In The Netherlands , there was from May 9, 1894 to July 27, 1897 the cabinet Roëll, with Jonkheer mr. J. Roëll (oud-liberaal) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1895: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 5.1 million citizens.
    • April 6 » Oscar Wilde is arrested in the Cadogan Hotel, London, after losing a libel case against the Marquess of Queensberry.
    • April 8 » In Pollock v. Farmers' Loan & Trust Co. the Supreme Court of the United States declares unapportioned income tax to be unconstitutional.
    • August 31 » German Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin patents his navigable balloon.
    • September 18 » The Atlanta Exposition Speech on race relations is delivered by Booker T. Washington.
    • November 27 » At the Swedish–Norwegian Club in Paris, Alfred Nobel signs his last will and testament, setting aside his estate to establish the Nobel Prize after he dies.
    • November 28 » The first American automobile race takes place over the 54 miles from Chicago's Jackson Park to Evanston, Illinois. Frank Duryea wins in approximately 10 hours.

Day of death June 15, 1949

  • The temperature on June 15, 1949 was between 5.1 °C and 15.9 °C and averaged 10.8 °C. There was 6.7 hours of sunshine (40%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northwest. Source: KNMI
  • Koningin Juliana (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from September 4, 1948 till April 30, 1980 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • From August 7, 1948 till March 15, 1951 the Netherlands had a cabinet Drees - Van Schaik with the prime ministers Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) and Mr. J.R.H. van Schaik (KVP).
  • In the year 1949: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 9.9 million citizens.
    • January 5 » In his "State of the Union" address, United States President Harry S. Truman unveils his Fair Deal program.
    • February 14 » The Knesset (parliament of Israel) convenes for the first time.
    • April 1 » Chinese Civil War: The Chinese Communist Party holds unsuccessful peace talks with the Nationalist Party in Beijing, after three years of fighting.
    • May 9 » Rainier III becomes Prince of Monaco.
    • October 14 » The Smith Act trials of Communist Party leaders in the United States convicts eleven defendants of conspiring to advocate the violent overthrow of the federal government.
    • November 3 » Chinese Civil War: The Battle of Dengbu Island occurs.


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